Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, people moved from the Pacific Islands to New Zealand in the expectation that their children would enjoy improved life chances, which they believed would follow from improved quality ...

Fijian villages and village life are at the core of Fijian society and culture. Yet there
has been much recent change in villages as a result of greater commercialization
of land, labor, and agriculture. This paper draws ...

Anthropologists and others have recently argued that Papua New Guineans’ contemporary patterns of consumption including Western clothing fashions have become critical components of commodification, modernization, globalization, ...